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"Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century" is a collection of essays edited by Christina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger that explores the use of multiple media channels to create expansive fictional worlds during the 19th century. The essays focus on the period from 1870 to 1920, a time of dramatic expansion in the number and diversity of periodicals in the United Kingdom and North America. The collection examines various examples of transmedia storytelling, including the extension of fictional worlds into real-world civic buildings, the relationship between the telephone and other media, and the transmedial dimensions of city mystery novels. The book also highlights the case of Sherlock Holmes, whose enduring transmedial stardom emerged from a combination of factors including serial storytelling, distinctive illustrations, and the relationship between different periodicals. Overall, the collection demonstrates the close ties between transmediality and the practices, innovations, and genres of 19th-century periodicals and serial forms. [Extracted from the article] |
